i brought this rear panel for pretty dirt cheap. but the original owner cut off most of the cancer from it. i know some websites sells replacment quarter peices for specific cars, but i cant find the replacment for this 1950 mercury. and i know rust is very common in this area. thanks for any help.
Try this list I created a while back: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=331564&highlight=mercury+reproduction+parts
Hey, Do you have the other quarter panel to use as a pattern? There isn't alot of shape in that pattern, other than where it rolls under to meet the rocker. Given it will take as much work to trim, shape and fit most patch panels you'll find available today, ya may as well build your own! Take a piece of thin cardboard (donut boxes work well), and trace the missing areas of metal on to the cardboard. Cut the cardboard tracing out. Study the shapes of the panel, and the cutout cardboard. Cut the metal from sheet steel, bend, shape, trim & beat to fit, paint to suit! S****ey Devils C.C. "Spenadin A Nation Into Generational Debt Is Not An Act Of Comp***ion!"
thanks, the only hard part with that, is the curved trim peice at the wheel section. il give it a shot tho, im not the best metal shaper.
I wouldn't say that... 1: Call (661)824-4728 2: Ask for Gene 3: Tell him 'Sean' sent you 4: Have a nice day!
I'd say that is the perfect "learn how to do it" job right there. It's simple bends on pieces of sheet metal. You've got the main front section that tells you what shape to make it. If you are building that car yourself, that is only just the beginning of what you will end up welding up on your car. Use some round rod if you can't figure out how to make the lip on the wheel well opening. Or run some skirts, there's all kinds of shade tree solutions.
Seriously... call him up. I know we make them and I think we may have one already done. I have a (long) list of parts in front of me and I see the exact part you need. Call him now!!! Well, you might want to wait until the morning, but yeah, he'll fix you up!
Hey, If Gene can't help ya, or you decide ya wanna give it a shot, the "curved trim piece" isn't hard to make! You can "throw a 90 degree flange on some sheet, take one of those small benchtop shrinker/stretcher machines, and make a great looking flange. Take that flange and weld it to the patch you've built, for the rest of the quarter, weld it in, hammerweld and file/grind it, and you'll have as good or better a part as you can buy! Again, if you're bettin' the farm on repopped patch panels to save this Merc alone, yer gonna be one unhappy gent, when you find yourself sittin' in a pile of "raingutters", masquerading as Merc parts, and sayin' I coulda built these"! S****ey Devils C.C. "Spending A Nation Into Generational Debt Is Not An Act Of Comp***ion!"
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